This is an updated version of the profile originally published at Unz Review. Thanks to Ron Unz for having the courage and moxie to stand behind this piece.
How Daily Beast Editor, Michael Weiss Helped Send Siamak Namazi to Evin Torture Chambers
It’s a long way from the campus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire’s Great North Woods in 2003 to … [Read more...]

Tonight, another one of those stranger-than-fiction spy yarns that seem all too common for Israeli intelligence. It begins with the last days of the Shah, when he appointed as prime minister, Shapur Bakhtiar. After the 1979 Revolution, Bakhtiar went into exile and ended up in France. In those days, bloodletting was fierce both within Iran, where the MeK … [Read more...]

UPDATE: The Times of London's Israel correspondent, Sheera Frenkel, has just confirmed the Fordo incident through her own independent sources:
An explosion is believed to have damaged Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, which is being used to enrich uranium, Israeli intelligence officials have told The Times. Sources in Tel Aviv said yesterday that they thought … [Read more...]

Hezbollah today took credit for the drone which penetrated 35 miles into Israeli airspace last week and came with 18 miles of overflying Israel's top-secret Dimona nuclear weapons facility before being shot down. It said the drone had been produced in Iran and launched by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. Much of this had been surmised and reported here and … [Read more...]